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- From: John Rose <john@wbfoss.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Amiga 1200 Internet bundle
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 96 18:56:45 GMT
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- Michael Veroukis (umverou0@cc.umanitoba.ca) wrote:
- : ........
- : There's probably other reasons. I think it's a bad idea for AT to
- : endorse MUI at all, as I believe that alot of the ideas in MUI should be
- : incorporated into intuition and gadtools directly. Now, we have a 3rd
- : party developed, highly kludgy inteface system slowly becoming standard.
- : If it becomes accepted by other commercial developers, AT might not see a
- : reason to improve intuition/gadtools. I know current intuition and
- : gadtools kinda sucks right now, but we have to stick with them, and
- : hopefully they will be improved with the next OS release.
- : See, the problem is this: What if the new intuition.library and
- : gadtools.library support all the features of MUI? That'll be great,
- : except, since so many programs have been written for MUI, you'll still
- : have to keep MUI around. And how about all those other interface
- : libraries. So, I don't like to use MUI. I refuse to develope anything
- : that uses MUI, I'd rather put some more effort into the GUI, and use
- : gadtools.
-
- I agree, the above could very quickly lead to the Amiga having an
- extra layer above intuition and then suffer all the problems of
- Windoze 9x. If Amiga Technologies like MUI so much then it must
- become part of the OS not a layer on top of it.
-
- John Rose
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